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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Win Smith who wrote (6308)	2/21/2001 2:01:14 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

... to allow women to receive emergency contraceptives from a pharmacist without a doctor's prescription This is the text what I was responding to. It is a whole class of compounds (actually, I think RU486 can be used in this way as well, but is not approved for such use). I'll have to look that up to be sure. But, at any rate, that isn't what I was advocating in the cited reference. Emergency contraceptive? What the heck is that? It could simply be a morning after dose of ALREADY approved drugs. People are doing this already without FDA supervision. Perhaps we should just legalize the practice. BTW, long-gone, from the article: Unlike Mifeprex or mifepristone, previously known as RU-486, which can induce an abortion safely during the first 49 days of pregnancy, morning-after pills do not cause abortion, advocates say. They prevent the ovulation that leads to pregnancy or stop a fertilized egg from implanting in a woman's uterus, events that take place before medical experts believe pregnancy begins.